The court established that guest lecturers performing similar work to permanent faculty must receive equal pay and their employment should comply with regularization procedures set by statutory regulations.

CAV ORDER

1. These petitions are by Dr.Ansuya Kadam, Dr.Udayakumar, Dr.Vidhyadhar S. N., who state that they were appointed as Guest Lecturers in the year 2003 and 2005, and have rendered services as Guest Lecturers for more than 15 years and, hence they were entitled to be regularized.

2. The petitioners have produced service certificates to indicate the length of their service and, the details of the certificate produced are as follows:

3. This Court, vide order dated 03.09.2024, directed the Third Respondent to pay salaries for the period 2022–23, leading to an inference that the services were indeed obtained from the petitioners from 2017 onwards. Therefore, upon a cumulative consideration of the facts, it is evident that the petitioners have been engaged in service from 2003 – 2017 & 2017- 2023, amounting to nearly 15 years of service.

4. It is their case that they had submitted several representations to regularize their services and had approached this Court when they went unconsidered and a Co-ordinate Bench of this Court had issued a direction to consider said representations in W.P.No.207758-760/2017 within a period of four months. They contend that the University has not considered their representations, and on the other hand,